Purchased From Petsmart

[daleo8803]

around here the petsmart is pretty good. most of the people that work there know nothing about reptiles BUT they are very willing to learn! i had an hour long descussion about leopard geckos with one guy and about two months later he was selling a leo to someone and he remmebered what i had told him! their animals normaly look pretty good. the balls have large water dishes for humidity, even the leos get a humid hide. the only problem i have with them is the way the keep their uros but thats another story. every petco i have been in SUCKED!! the local store called animal suppy SUCKS even worse than petco! none of their animals are kept right plus the store smells somthin bad... also i have never bought reptile from petsmart. i always get them from friends or shows.

dale

[Beardedragon]

Theres a Brand new(ish) petco and Petsmart they just built a year or two ago across the street from each other. The Petco rocks compared to all others ive seen, it could be because one of their workers gos on alot of forums like this. Granted she cant fix everything without being fired, she does as much as she can.

Now the Petsmart... I try not to go there, I went there once while they were feeding and they put no more than 15 crickets in the leopard gecko tank, and there was about 7 in there. One got to almost all the crickets first before the others even came out ( All tail wagging excited for food, sadess thing ive ever seen) Plus it seems like every other time I go in there I have to tell them theres a dead reptile in one of the tanks...

[BOWSER11788]

the petsmart in durham, is the best EVER i'vr seen, beardies-leos on carpet, and hiumdity and temp gauges in all, plus my petco price matches, so instead of ordering online, find a product my co has and print off page, get my UTH for like 10 bucks, reptisuns for 25 and MVB for like 30 so its all good

[Black_Shark]

the petsmart in durham, is the best EVER i'vr seen, beardies-leos on carpet, and hiumdity and temp gauges in all, plus my petco price matches, so instead of ordering online, find a product my co has and print off page, get my UTH for like 10 bucks, reptisuns for 25 and MVB for like 30 so its all good

I'm assuming your talking about the petsmart in durham, NC? If so, that is quite a nice one. I got my first snake, a corn, from there and hes been healthy as a horse!

[davidyun]

the thing is about em
is that its overpriced

[Jay_Bunny]

When I first started working in my Petsmart store, it was terrible. I almost quit several times because the level of animal care was horrible, especially with the reptiles. They would stick 4 bearded dragon babies in the same cage (equivalent of little bit smaller than a 10g tank) and only drop a few crickets in every morning. The crickets would go under the carpet and you would usually find 15+ crickets in there every week that the beardies had not found. As a result of this improper care and stuffing so many in one cage, we had a few deaths. We also lost a baby corn snake to starvation because the vets at the Banfield are stupid. They know nothing about reptiles and when the day comes that I finally quit, I'm going over there to give them a piece of my mind. There is a little corn I'm working with. They took him to the vet to hopefully get them to tube feed him, but instead they prescribed an antibiotic......um....what? So I brought it up with management and now he's my little "project" as no one else will sit there and cut up pinky heads for him and shove them down his throat.

But! On a brighter note, the store has made great improvements in care, especially when you look at another store about 30 min away. Our animals almost seem spoiled. Our ball pythons eat fine (they are on small mice 2x per week), beardies are only kept 2 to a cage (though someone dumb put a 3rd in there a few days ago. I'm making room for him in the back tonight so he'll stop stressing out), the beardies have all the lighting requirements met, fish are cleaned and well maintained, we try to educate people about what they can and cannot put in their tank. Sorry people, goldfish don't go in bowls.

When you have a Petsmart or a Petco, or ANY pet store that you see not taking care of it's animals properly, the usual problem is the employers hiring people that have no passion for animals. I think it should be a job requirement because if you don't really like animals, why would you actually LIKE spending time taking care of them. The actual care that I provide I find FUN! I have FUN at my job and so I take my time to do my job correctly and provide each and every animal with the proper care. When you have people that are just there for a paycheck you end up with sickly, mistreated, unhappy animals and the store's business suffers for it.

That is my $0.02.

In addition, I have actually never purchased a reptile from Petsmart (I can get them so much cheaper at shows), but I have purchased small animals and fish, and I've never had any issues.

[MitsuMike]

around here the petsmart is pretty good. most of the people that work there know nothing about reptiles BUT they are very willing to learn! i had an hour long descussion about leopard geckos with one guy and about two months later he was selling a leo to someone and he remmebered what i had told him! their animals normaly look pretty good. the balls have large water dishes for humidity, even the leos get a humid hide. the only problem i have with them is the way the keep their uros but thats another story. every petco i have been in SUCKED!! the local store called animal suppy SUCKS even worse than petco! none of their animals are kept right plus the store smells somthin bad... also i have never bought reptile from petsmart. i always get them from friends or shows.

dale

I am guessing your in Raleigh/Garner

[cinderbird]

I would never purchase any animals from petsmart or petco. I stress the word purchase. I HAVE adopted a gecko (currently caring for) and i did adopt one of my cats from a shelter that worked through a petsmart, but i did not give the actual stores money for animals.

The only exception i can see is if they had a full pinstripe crested gecko and their cresteds were on sale.

I don't understand why people would want to give their money to these stores when they have the option of going to a breeder and giving someone they like, trust and enjoy money for an animal. With a breeder, you know where the animal came from, who the parents are, etc. With a petsore you don't get that. You don't really get much at all except a maybe healthy animal from a questionable background. All the BPs are CH. Why bother? At least the cresteds and the leos are usually CBB.

[Void]

Not all PETCO or petsmart stores are bad...just like with buying an animal...you might find a good one or you might find a bad one. My gf and I got our two bps,tegu,green iguana,and one of our rtb from PETCO and NEVER had any problems with them. The petsmart we have here is ok but they have a very small reptile selection and the people there you can easily tell don't know much about the reptiles they have so buying one from them is a no go.

There's a few people at our PETCO who knows what they're doing so the animals are taking care of. Plus my gf works there now so when it comes to the reptiles she knows what's up.

[Void]

Figured I might as well show the kids that were bought form Petco

Gigan


Lazarus


Curse


Helios


Nyx



All are healthy and not once had any problems with them ^_^